Taylor v. City of Raleigh

SHARP, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs are the owners of land through which the City of Raleigh proposes to construct a sewer line from its primary corporate limits to the noncontiguous 39.89-acre Mangum “satellite” tract annexed in 1972. In this action for a declaratory judgment they seek to invalidate the ordinance annexing the property and the 1970 rezoning ordinance, which changed the property’s classification from R-4 to R-6. This change authorized the construction of “Two (2) family dwellings, multifamily dwelling, townhouses, or apartment houses, each on its own lot, fronting on a public…